by Ellen Boeder | Mar 1, 2016 | Motherhood, psychology, values
Recently, I got a huge download about feeling anxious: I realized that my anxiety is trying to help me. I know its weird for me to say that. If you ever feel anxious, you know anxiety does not feel helpful. Anxiety feels like something that needs to be stopped,...
by Ellen Boeder | Feb 23, 2016 | Feminism, Marriage, Motherhood, psychology
Ok. I can’t write one more word on this blog without talking about my marriage. This knowing that I have to write about us has been looming since I started writing about motherhood. Because, motherhood is not a solo endeavor for me. My experience as a mother is deeply...
by Ellen Boeder | Feb 1, 2016 | Motherhood, psychology, values
It seems like everywhere I look these days, someone is selling me “The Secret to a Balanced Life,” or something along those lines. Anyone else out there annoyed by this? I feel like I am being sold a new and improved version of perfection, just repurposed and...
by Ellen Boeder | Jan 3, 2016 | Motherhood, psychology
I’m deconstructing another lie I tell myself when I feel overwhelmed with the amount of responsibilities and roles I have taken on in my life: I have no space. Now you see, a part of me really thinks this is TRUE. Seriously, I walk around with kids clinging to my...
by Ellen Boeder | Dec 7, 2015 | Feminism, Motherhood, psychology
*By the way, the hardest part of writing this post was finding a picture that would support the lie. Turns out I don’t have a single one that does. So here is a picture of the two people I adore that have turned my life upside down–in the best way* I...
by Ellen Boeder | Nov 3, 2015 | empowerment, Feminism, Motherhood, psychology
I had two simultaneous reactions to a picture I recently saw of the artist Amanda Palmer. The picture was of Amanda signing autographs while breastfeeding her new baby. On one hand, I felt a sense of victory. These days a woman can be a mother, breastfeeding openly,...
by Ellen Boeder | Oct 10, 2015 | empowerment, Motherhood, psychology, writing
I anticipated this happening. Start writing a blog on motherhood, and pretty soon wonder: Why I am doing this? What is this for? How is this helping or changing anything, for me, or anyone? I don’t really have the time/energy/technical skills for this. What is the...
by Ellen Boeder | Sep 21, 2015 | empowerment, Feminism, Motherhood
When the feminist scholar and professor Andrea O’Reilly was looking for an artist to create the cover for the book, “Mother Outlaws: Theory and Practice of Empowered Mothering,” the majority of the images she received were of pregnant women’s torsos. Though...
by Ellen Boeder | Sep 9, 2015 | Motherhood, writing, yoga
For about a decade from my mid-twenties to early thirties I was in the midst of a deep love affair with yoga. While listening to one of my teachers, Richard Freeman, I realized my fascination with the experience of paradox in yoga. Yoga is an excellent form in which...
by Ellen Boeder | Aug 25, 2015 | empowerment, Feminism, Motherhood
About a year ago I started searching for resources on feminism and motherhood. When I realized that a lot of my pre-motherhood feminist ideals of independence, financial autonomy, and career advancement (that had given me a sense of empowerment) were not what I was...
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